DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. lo7 



Mr. Blackraan has, during the past year, been engaged in 

 finishing the arrangement of the collection of drawings o£ 

 British Fungi presented to the Museum by Mr. Wheeler. He 

 has also determined and placed in the collection a number of 

 rare microscopic Fungi, in part new to Britain, collected in 

 the west of Scotland, and presented to the Museum by 

 Mr. Boyd. The cases descriptive of Monocotyledons and 

 Dicotyledons in the Index Museum are, under his direction, 

 progressing towards completion, both by the addition of new 

 specimens and the description of those already in position. 

 The drawings exhibited in these cases representing the 

 histological features of the chief organs of Dicotyledons and 

 Monocotyledons have been considerably increased in number. 

 In this work he has had the assistance of Mr, Lloyd Williams, 

 Mr. Horrell, and Miss Mitchell. 



In the public gallery the exhibition of British Fungi has 

 been almost completed. Two cases have been added to the 

 illustrations of adaptations of plant structures, the one 

 dealing with fruit and seed dispersal, the other with parasitic 

 flowering plants. A magnificent specimen of Cycas revoluta, 

 presented by Horace Mann, Esq., Chapelton, Jamaica, has 

 been placed in the gallery. 



A collection of plants, 433 in number, made in Somali land 

 by Mrs. E. Lort Phillips and presented by her, has proved to 

 be of singular interest and novelty. Papers by the officers of 

 the department describing the collection have already been 

 published. 



Throughout the year Capt. W. Haultain Milner has 

 collected phyto-plankton from mid Atlantic with great zeal, 

 and has presented a large number of gatherings to the 

 Museum. 



The other addition to the collections by presentation, have 

 consisted of : — 162 Bornean plants by Governor Creagh, cm.g. ; 

 160 Bornean Plants by Dr. G. Haviland ; 681 Idaho Plants 

 by the United States National Museum ; 75 Canadian plants 

 by Dr. Macoun ; 75 West Tropical African Plants by R. Webb, 

 Esq. ; 21 Australian Plants by Miss J. L. Hussey ; 35 Thibetan 

 Plants by Capt. Cordeaux ; 136 Jamaican Flowering Plants 

 and 55 Cryptogams by the Hon. W. Fawcett ; 150 Philippine 

 Flowering Plants and two Fungi by John Whitehead, Esq. ; 

 58 European Plants by Arthur Bennett, Esq. ; 87 New Zealand 

 Flowering Plants and three Fungi by T. Kirk, Esq. ; 133 

 Australian Plants by F. M. Bailey, Esq. ; 26 Orchids and 



1 Conifer by Messrs. Veitch ; 3 Orchids by Messrs. Lowe ; 



8 Orchids by Messrs. Sander ; 2 Orchids by Messrs. Williams ; 



2 Orchids by F. W. Moore, Esq. ; 5 Orchids by Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence ; 1 Orchid by Messrs. Measures ; 1 Orchid by E. 

 Ashworth, Esq. ; 1 abnormal Orchid by H. Druce, Esq. ; 



9 Conifers by Dr. Masters, f.r.s. ; 38 Australian, Indian and 

 Cape Algse by Dr. Braithwaite ; 150 Indian Cryptogams by 

 J. F. Duthie Esq. ; 100 Tasmanian Mosses and 1 Flowering 

 Plant by W. A. Weymouth, Esq. ; 2 specimens of Allium by 



